Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1887-01-05
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He Produces whisky which IL Robbed Of
the Power 10 tito n ists
May Drink IL Freely.


He Produces whisky which IL Robbed Of
the Power 10 itionistS
May Drink IL Freely.
For several years q New York chem.
lst has been experimenting with a
view 10 depriving alcoholic liquors Of
their intoxicating principle. Accord.
ing 10 this gentleman, the intoxicat-
Ing principle is the ether, or combina-
tons Of ether, which remain in aleo-
hol even after the iusel oil has been
carefully extracted; ether, in combi-
nation with certain gums that give
whisky and brandy their chsracteris-
tic odOrs and some Of their qualities,
has never been eliminated heretofore
without wholly destroying the liquor
as medicinal or exhIlaTaling beyer-
age. The process by which the ethers
or combinations Of ether with the
gums held in solution are eliminated
10 IA secret one Tor " hich the inventor
expects 10 be rewarded should The pro-
cess come into general use. None Of
the treated whisky has been offered
for sale; Ms yet the distillers look upon
the invention with extreme distIust,
II not absolute enmiiy, for ii, as one
distiller remarked. much Of this famed
whisky should get into The market
IL might destroy the reputation
vi any quantity Of the real
article; II would be enough
to disgust ali old topper with whisky
iur lie To discover that hall . ,oltle of
it had no more effect IN hin than a
few glasses Of beer. He would at once
Inier that nothing short o. vitriol
would be of any further Use To- / im, OF
that whlskey dIstillers had lot their
cunning. In either case he would
give up drinking whisky.
The Inventor believes that in maxi
ing this discovery he has done a great
work for the prohibitionists, mas
much as whisky after such treatment
may be regarded as nothing more or
less than food of a highly nutritious
and valuable kind. and under this be-
lief he has attempted To obtain the ap-
probation Of the leading prohibition
advocates. Unfortunately he does not
seem To have been successful. He
says that the Rev. DIR. Howard Crosby
treated him ''like nlgger," and
seemed to take his visit and his bottle
Of whisky as q personal insult. DIR.
Crosby referred him with extreme
warmth to the chemists, and said he
had nothing TO do with the scientific
aspects Of the question. With other
lights Of the temperance cause
he met with no better luck. Upon
the other hand, the liquor deal
ers whom he asked 10 test his
whisky were unanimous in announc-
ing IL Ms a fraud. As whisky it was
not worth five cents gallon after de-
ethvrlzalion, whatever IL might be
n. temperance drink. and one prom
IneDi expert in liquors declared 10 the
inventor that no liquor dealer in The
city would dream OF placing the stuff
b fore his patrons, first, because the
patrons wanted 10 get drunk, and rec
oDdly, because the liquor dealer
wanted them 10 do 40. No more in.
dignant assembly could be imagined
than the social circle at any of our
gfog shops attempting New Years
celebration on this tanned whisky. A
prominent whisky faster who was
asked for his professional opinion upon
/ the merits ~ the stuff as a drink, said
! that u had no merits; II had lost its
bite" aud any whisky drinker before
whom n bottle of such stuff was placed
would be justified Ia throwing the
bottl st the bartender.
Altogether the prospects OF intro
duclng tanned whisky ss AL article Of
commerce are not brilliant. and the
inventor confessed that no capitalists
have appeared ready TO manufacture
the article upon large scale. The
process is cheap, and would not APP
pr.cisbly increase the cost Of alcoholic
liquors; the elimination Of the ethers
In whisky would amount TO about )
per cent. Of the alcohol contained
] therein.-New York Evening Post.